:-> "jh" == jh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a best way to shut down linux and turn off your computer? I read > in an online guide that you should press <ctrl><alt><delete>. When I do > this and I later turn my computer on it says "last boot failed"...Then it > installs. Is this the recommended way to turn off your computer?
the correct command is "shutdown -h now" which is also available as "halt" If you have an ATX case and motherboard, "shutdown -h -p now" or the shorter "poweroff" also turns power down. You should have compiled your kernel with APM poweroff option for this to work. Pf -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.12 #1 Fri Oct 1 02:10:16 CEST 1999 i686 unknown